Did Snowden get his secrets off the cloud? What Snowden shows is that the biggest risk to your data and business is rouge employee's not where your data is stored. For every dollar a business loses due to cloud security issues I would wager they lose 100 due to internal pilfering.
Craig On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Folks, I have a demo SQL database in Azure and it's working nicely, but > now we have to consider how to get it into production use. My demo DB > doesn't contain any real names and addresses, but the live DB will have > information about hospital patients, and you can imagine how confidential > that is! I'm told they will demand the DB be stored on hospital managed > servers, which is a damn nuisance in reality as I'm sure many of you know > how tedious it can be trying to break through walls of bureaucracy around > IT departments in places like hospitals and the government. > > This opens up the whole issues of "trust and the cloud". Since the Snowden > revelations, I don't know how anyone with confidential data can trust cloud > storage. Even I don't trust it and all of my backups in Rackspace and Azure > blobs are pkzipc AES encrypted. So how on earth could a hospital be > convinced that cloud store is an attractive option? > > I just remembered that Amazon has a special area that is certified secure > so they can get government contracts. I haven't seen anything like that in > Azure. Despite that, it doesn't make me feel much better, as we now know > the NSA was intercepting hardware and bugging it, and coercing huge telcos > to put splitters in the backbones, and using secret FISA orders to threaten > other even huger companies to secretly hand over their records. So who the > hell can trust anyone in the cloud?! > > Is anyone dealing in this sort of cloud/trust business at the moment? > What's the state of play? is there any hope? Am I just paranoid? (who's > monitoring this email?) > > *Greg K* >
